About Shaikh Abdal-Hakim Murad

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Abdal Hakim Murad is Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, UK, which trains imams for British mosques. In 2010 he was voted Britain’s most influential Muslim thinker by Jordan’s Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.

He has translated a number of books from the Arabic, including several sections of Imam al-Ghazali's Ihya' Ulum al-Din.

Abdal Hakim Murad, a Sunni Muslim, regularly leads Jum’a prayers at the Cambridge central mosque, and has spoken in major mosques in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Spain, and the United States. Recordings of his talks are available on the Cambridge Khutbas website. His articles have appeared in The Independent, the London Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Catholic Herald, Islamica, Zaman, the Times Literary Supplement, and Prospect. He is also a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.

This page is the official repository for most of the online articles of Abdal Hakim Murad.

BBC Radio 3 Interview with Joan Bakewell on the radio show Belief Talks to Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad about his conversion to Islam
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Books written & translated

Seventy Seven Branches
of Faith (trans.)
by Imam al-Bayhaqi,
translated by Abdal Hakim Murad.
Pages xiii+65. 203x138mm.
The first English translation of a popular
collection of Hadiths (sayings of the Blessed
Prophet), considered second only to the Qur'an
in sanctity.
ISBN: 1 872038 03 4 (paper)